BBC英语新闻词汇
bbc常用词汇
有些同义词在英语新闻报道中屡见不鲜，值得读者在学习、辨析英语同义词时加以注意和收集。
现再列出一些经常见诸报端表示“说”的近义动词，供参考：acknowlege 承认add 接着说；又说admit 承认affirm 肯定；确认allege宣称analyze 分析道announce 宣布argue 争辩；主张assert 断言boast 夸口说caution 告诫说claim 声称complain 抱怨说concede承认conclude 断定；下结论confess 供认；承认contend 争辩continue 接着说contradict 反驳；否定declare 声明声称deny 否认disclose 透露elaborate 详细述说emphasize 详述；阐明exclaim 大声说；呼喊explain 解释说go on 继续说；接着说imply 暗示insist坚持说；主张maintain 主张；认为note 谈及；表明object 提出异议；反对；反驳observe 评述pledge 保证proclaim 宣告；声明protest 抗议reaffirm 重申reiterate 重申remark 议论reply 回答refute 反驳reveal 透露state 声明；声称stress 着重说；强调suggest 建议tell 告诉；告知urge 敦促；力劝warn 警告说；告诫英语报刊中经常借用的人名、物名、建筑物名称乃至别名等专有名词多属习常见惯的。
现再举一些这类词语以及它们所表示的意义，供参考：Beantown(豆城)美国波士顿市Big Apple(大苹果)美国纽约市Big Board(纽约证券交易所的大行情板)纽约证券所／纽约股市Broadway(百老汇大街)美国或纽约市商业性戏剧(业)Capitol／Capitol Hill／Hill(美国国会所在地)国会山、美国国会City of Angels(天使城)洛杉矶City of Brotherly Love(博爱城)费城City by the Golden Gate(金门城)旧金山市Crescent City(新月城)新奥尔良市Dice City(赌城)(美国以夜总会和赌场著称的)拉斯韦加斯市Empire State(帝国州)纽约州Foggy Bottom[美国国务院等政府机构所在地(雾谷)]美国政府Film Capital of the World(世界影都)好莱坞Ford[(美国)福特牌汽车]畅销货Fun City(逍遥城)纽约市Golden State(黄金州)加利福尼亚州Hollywood(好莱坞)美国电影业；美国电影界Hub of the Universe(宇宙中心)波士顿市Land of Lincoln(林肯的故乡)、美国伊利诺斯州Madison Avenue(美国广告业中心)麦迪逊大街美国广告业／美国商业Mother of Presidents(总统之母)美国弗吉尼亚州或俄亥俄州Motor City／Motown(汽车城)底特律市Pentagon／Penta(五角大楼)美国国防部Steel City(钢城)匹兹堡市Windy City(多风城)芝加哥市Uncle Sam(山姆大叔)美国政府；美国人Wall Street(华尔街)美国金融界；美国金融市场White House(白宫)美国政府；美国总统Buckingham Palace[(英国王宫)白金汉宫] 英国皇室the City[(英国首都伦敦市中心)伦敦城] 英国商业界；英国金融界Downing StreetNo．10／No．10 Downing Street [(英国首相官邸和一些主要政府部门所在地)唐宁街10号]英国首相；英国政府Fleet Street(舰队街)英国新闻界Scotland Yard(苏格兰场；伦敦警察局)伦敦警方Elysee[(法国总统官邱)爱丽舍宫]法国政府；法国总统Maginot Line[(第二次大战前法国所筑防御阵地体系)马其诺防线]盲目行动；迷恋于维持现状Quai d'Orsay[(法国外交部附近地名)凯道赛码头]法国外交部；法国外交政策；法国政府Bermuda／Bermuda Triangle[百慕大(魔鬼)三角]危险的禁区Horn of Africa(非洲之角)索马里和埃塞俄比亚Zhongnanhai(中南海)中国政府1)具体确切的消息来源。
bbc新闻常用词汇
critic批评家dissident持不同政见者dove鸽派成员，主和派成员dovish带点鸽派味道的element分子equalitarian平均主义者，平等主义者 expansionist扩张主义者extremist极端分子factionalist搞派别活动者familism家庭主义familist家庭主义者fascism法西斯主义fascist法西斯主义者functionary工作人员，官员hardcore中坚分子hardliner强硬分子humanitarian人道主义者，慈善家hawk鹰派成员，主战派成员idealist空想家，理想主义者impostor骗子，冒名顶替者internationalist国际主义者left wing左翼leftist左派分子liberalism自由主义liberalist自由主义者，开明的人lieutenant中尉，副职官员，代理官员 lobbyist说客militarist军国主义分子moderatist温和派分子nationalist民族主义者neo-fascist新法西斯主义者neo-Nazi新纳粹分子neutralist中立主义者oppionist持特定见解的人opponent反对者optimist乐观主义者patriot爱国者pessimist悲观主义者proponent支持者quisling卖国贼，内奸racism种族主义racist种族主义者radical激进分子realism现实主义realist现实主义者reformist改良主义者revolutionary革命的，革命者revolutionist革命者right wing右翼rightist右派分子rival竞争者，对手royalist保皇主义者，保皇党人sectarian宗派的，宗派主义者separatist主张分治（分裂）的人socialist社会主义者splinter group（party）分裂出来的组织（党）think tank智囊团triumvir三头政治中的执政者之一Utopian空想家apparatus机构Assembly议会autonomy自治Board委员会，部，厅，局Board of Trade（英）商务部Bureau局Cabinet内阁caretaker Cabinet看守内阁caucus决策委员会，秘密会议coalition government联合政府commission委员会committee委员会Commonwealth英联邦Congress国会Council委员会Department部，院Department of Defence国防部Department of State国务院Diet（丹麦、日本等）国会Duma（俄）下议院Exchequer（英）财政部Foreign Ministry外交部Houseof Representatives众议院interim government临时政府，过渡（性质的）政府 Junta军人统治集团Knesset（以色列）国会Lower House(House of Commons)（英）下院Ministry部mission委员会National Security Council国家安全委员会ombudsman（专门调查官员舞弊情况的）政府官员，机构（或组织）内专门听取意见或批评的Panel（研究某个问题的）专门小组parliament议会Politburo政治局，核心决策机构regime政权secretariat秘书处，书记处Senate参议院Shadow cabinet影子内阁standing committee常设委员会State Council国务院steering committee（团体组织中的）筹划指导委员会subcommittee分委员会temporary (government)临时 (政府）tentative (cabinet)临时（内阁）Committee众议院筹款委员会appoint指定，委任appointee被指定者，被委任者appointment指定，委任assign委派，指定assignment委派，指定assume office就任，就职，就位chairman主席chancellor（德、奥等国的）总理commissioner专员，特派员congressman国会议员deputy副designate指定，选派designation指定，选派expresident前任总统fire撤职foreign minister 外交部部长governor管理者，总督，州hand over移交inaugural address就职演说inaugural ceremony就职典礼inaugural speech就职演说inaugurate为……举行就职典礼inauguration就职典礼incumbent现任的，在位的induct使正式就职induction就职install任命，使就职installation任命，使就职interior minister内政（务）部长lieutenant governor副州长majority leader多数党领袖minister部长minister of finance财政部长minister without portfolio不管部部长minority leader少数党领袖occupant任职者，占用者outgoing (president)即将离任的（总统）parliamentarian议会议员predecessor前任premier总理president总统president elect尚未就职的新当选总统prime minister首相puppet受他人操纵的人（或集团），傀儡purge清除，清洗purgee被清除者，被清洗者quit退职，离职reshuffle改组，撤换（官员）resign辞职resignation辞职sack解雇，开除secretary of agriculture农业部长secretary of commerce商业部长secretary of defence国防部长secretary o f state国务卿secretary of the treasury财政部长senator参议员sitting在立法（或司法）机构中占席位的，在任期内的 speaker议长swear宣誓，立誓，发誓swear in宣誓就职take office就任，就职take one's place就任，就职take over接管take the oath of office宣誓take up one's post就任，就职vice president副总统absence缺席，不在absent缺席，不在absentee不在者，缺席者abstain弃权adjourn延期，休会agenda日程ballot无记名投票bill议案，法案blue ribbon第一流的，特别选出的boycott（联合）抵制candidate候选人census人口调查coopt指定为代表conference会议congress国会，代表大会consensus（意见等）一致，同意constituency全体选民constituent Assembly立宪会议，国民代表大会 contest竞选convene召集convention大会disenfranchise(=disfranchise)剥夺公民选举权 disenfranchisement剥夺公民选举权edge（选举中的）有利条件election选举electoral选举的，选举人的electorate全体选民，选区eligible有资格的field全部候选人file(在预选中 )备案做候选人floor议员席，发言权forum论坛franchise公民权get the floor取得发言权gubernatorial州长的，地方长官的hearing（美）听证会impeach检举，弹劾incompetence不胜任issue问题，争论的焦点 kill否决（提案）majority多数marginal票数接近的midterm election中期选举minority少数motion提案nay反对negative vote反对票nominate提名nomination提名nominee被提名者null and void无效overwhelming压倒的platform纲领plebiscite公民投票plenary session全体会议plurality得票多的poll投票选举preside主持presidential election总统选举presidium主席团proposal提案public opinion poll民意测验（调查）public opinion study民意调查public opinion survey民意调查quorum法定人数race竞选rapporteur报告起草人recess休会referendum全民公决return选举结果rig用欺骗手段操纵选举rostrum演讲台，讲坛run竞选 run for竞选run off决定性竞选seat席位；给……席位session会议，一届会议sponsor提案人straw poll测验民意的假投票suffrage投票，投票权，选举权，参政权 symposium专题讨论会tenure任职期间unanimous一致同意的vacant（职位）空缺vote投票vote against投票反对vote for投票赞成voter选民workshop专题讨论会yea赞成anonym匿名者，假名anonymity匿名者，假名anonymous匿名的，无名的，不知名的 awkward尴尬的bombshell（喻）出人意外的事件corrupt腐败，贪污corruption腐败，贪污cronism裙带关系crony亲密的朋友，老朋友gavel小木槌；强行要求manifesto宣言，声明nepotic重用亲戚的nepotism重用亲戚，裙带关系nepotist重用亲戚的人obscurity无名的人paparazzi拍拍垃圾，追踪摄影队，盯人虫pluck sb. from obscurity越级提拔某人underfire（喻）受到猛烈的批评Economic and Social Council经济与社会理事会 Disarmament Committee裁军委员会GeneralAssembly大会consolidate巩固International Court of Justice国际法院Military Staff Committee军事参谋团Non permanent Member非常任理事国Permanent Member常任理事国Regional Commissions区域委员会Secretariat秘书处Secretary General联合国秘书长Security Council安全理事会Trusteeship Council托管理事会United Nations联合aide助手ambassador大使ambassador at large无任所大使ambassadress女大使attache使馆馆员charge d'affaires临时代办commercial attache商务专员commercial counsellor商务参赞consul领事consular领事（馆）的consulate领事馆contingent（派遣的）代表团corps外交使团全体人员counsellor参赞culture attache文化专员culture counsellor文化参赞diplomat外交人员embassy大使馆entourage随行人员envoy使节Liaison Office联络处military attache武官motorcade车队personagrata受欢迎的人personanon grata不受欢迎的人accord协议bluebook蓝皮书charter宪章credential国书，证书memorandum备忘录note照会protest抗议书protocol纪要，备忘录treaty条约ultimatum最后通牒white paper(book)白皮书acourtesy call礼节性访问aguard ofhonor仪仗队Airforce One（美国总统乘坐的）空军一号专机 en route去……的途中fact findingvisit进行实地调查的访问garland花环gesture外交上的姿态get acquainted visit了解情况的访问grant sb an audience接见某人have an audience with sb会见某人honorable guard仪仗队itinerary预定的访问行程red carpet隆重的sendoff送别afocal point焦点aviable proposal一项可靠的建议access市场准入acrimonious严厉的，辛辣的acrimony严厉，辛辣bow屈服budge微微的松动burning issue引起争论的紧要问题cede放弃concession让步 concessive让步的containment policy遏制政策contentious引起争论的controversy争论，争议diplomatic immunity外交豁免权dovish有点鸽派味道的drop out中途退出exterritorial治外法权的exterritoriality治外法权的extraterritorial = exterritorial治外法权的extraterritoriality =exterritoriality治外法权fast track authority（美国总统）快速审批贸易条约权力 give and take互让，平等交换意见heala breach消除分歧 heala rift消除分歧hotpotato棘手的问题intractable难处理的knotty problem难解决的问题land for peace（阿以之间）以土地换和平mediate调解，调停mediator调解人，调停人meticulous过细的momentum势头，契机moratorium暂停，延期偿付权much awaited盼望已久的multipolar world多极世界neutrality中立地位oil for food（伊拉克）以石油换食品parity均势pay a visit访问phenomenal非凡的political arena政治舞台power politics强权政治proviso附文，附带条件puzzle难题quest追求quota（贸易或移民等方面的）限额reiterate重申retract取消（声明、谎言、意见等）room of manoeuvre回旋的余地round（会议、谈判等）回合round about不直截了当的scrupulous审慎的showdown摊牌sovereignty and territory integrality主权与领土完整sphereof influence势力范围statesmanship政治家才能sticking problem（谈判等的）症结stonewall（议事中难以逾越的）障碍stumbling block绊脚石summit高级会谈tacit不言而喻的tacit agreement默契tacit consent默许tacit approval默认tact机智take it or leave it不容讨价还价的thorny棘手的to becrowned with success成功地完成了任务troubleshooter（政治、外交等方面）解决麻烦问题的能手troublesome困难的unipolarworld单极世界waive放弃，不坚持（权利，要求等）waiver自动放弃，弃权，弃权声明书ameliorate改善amicable友好的betterment改善bilateralism互惠主义（特指双边贸易）bilateralism双边的compassionate同情concurrence协力，一致cordial亲切的gratitude感谢，感恩hug紧紧地拥抱mend one's fence（从正当利益出发）与有关方面搞好关系以争取支持moral and material support道义上与物质上的支持preferential tariff特惠关税rapport亲善的关系rapprochement友好睦邻关系reciprocity互惠reconciliation复交，重新和好abhorrent令人憎恶的abrogate取消，废除adversary对手，敌手affront当众冒犯annex吞并apathetic无感情的arrogance自大，自负at odds不一致，争执baffle使……受损失banality陈词滥调belligerency交战，交战状态belligerent好战的bigot顽固的人 bigotry顽固blast（美俚）口头攻击blunder做错（大错）bog down使……陷入困境bungle搞坏，贻误carve up瓜分castigate严厉批评caustic尖刻的 cave（口）屈服cessation ofhostilities停战，休战 chillingly冷淡地clarify澄清closeloophole补漏洞coerce胁迫compound妥协concede（退一步）承认contempt轻视contemptible卑鄙的contemptuous傲慢的contentious引起争论的covert偷偷摸摸的，暗地里的 criminate指控，谴责crisis危机，转折点cunning狡诈的cynical冷讽热嘲dash挫折default违约defiance挑衅defraud欺骗delicate棘手deport驱逐出境dilatory拖拉discrepancy犯错误disgraceful丢脸的disincline厌恶dismember肢解dispel消除疑虑dissension争论，意见分歧dissent不同意，有异议dodge躲闪elusion回避embargo禁止贸易令，禁运embarrass窘迫enrage激怒erratic反复无常的expel驱逐出境faceoff对峙falsify篡改flagrant臭名昭著的flash point（战争等）爆发点 flatly断然地 fraud骗局 go under屈服。
英语学习-BBC新闻100篇
www.T BBC 新闻100 篇BBC News Item 1 政治：英国首相确定大选时间The BBC has learned that the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has decided that the British general election will take place on May 6th. Mr. Brown will go to Buckingham Palace tomorrow Tuesday to ask Queen Elizabeth to dissolve parliament, and then make a formal announcement of the election date. That will start the official election campaign, which, a BBC correspondent says, will be dominated by issues of taxation and spending in the wake of the global recession.BBC News Item 2 政治：大选在即，布朗遭遇挑战Less than six months before a general election in Britain, the governing Labour Party is embroiled again in internal strife. Two former cabinet ministers have called for secret ballot of members to decide whether the Prime Minister Gordon Brown should continue as party leader. Mr. Brown has called a general election by June this year. Our political correspondent Rob Watson reports.The two former cabinet ministers Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt had stunned everyone at Westminster with their last-minute efforts to challenge Gordon Brown‟s leadership. But Downing Street and Labour Party officials have moved quickly to quash any revolts. Most importantly, current cabinet ministers have come out and backed the prime minister, orbiting some cases with little apparent enthusiasm. So the latest challenge looks likely to be short lift. Although many within the Labour Party doubt Mr. Brown‟s leadership qualities, they also seem to think it would only make things worse to get rid of him before the general election.BBC News Item 3 军事：英国核缩减计划The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is offering to scale back Britain‟s nuclear deterrence if an international agreement is reached to cut the world‟s nuclear arsenals. Mr. Brown is expected to tell a special session of the United Nations Security Council on Thursday that he‟l l be willing to give up one of four royal navy submarines that carry Trident nuclear missiles. Officials are insisting that cost isn‟t a factor here. Here‟s our defence correspondent Nick Childs.Gordon Brown is saying he‟l l be ready to throw part of the trident force into the port in the context of a much bigger global disarmament deal. He said so in general terms before. This offer though is more concrete. There is a growing sense that to avoid what some fear could be a sudden cascade of new nuclear states, the established nuclear powers need to do more in terms of disarmament to keep the proliferation regime intact. The Prime Minister will hope his move will be seen as an important gesture. But the key to the process will be the actions of the big players, the United States and Russia.BBC News Item 4 军事：英国派军阿富汗The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to confirm that he is sending hundreds more troops to Afghanistan, bringing the total number of British troops there to about 9,500. Britain has the second largest NA TO contingent in Afghanistan after the United States. Our defense1www.T correspondent Caroline Wyatt reports.In his statement on Afghanistan, it‟s believed Mr. Brown will say he‟s agreed in principle to send around 500 extra British troops to Helmand. The military advice says that extra forces are needed to help maintain progress and dominate the ground more effectively to keep the Taliban out of key areas. However, there will be caveats. The Prime Minister will want assurances from military chiefs that the extra troops will be properly equipped. But he‟l l also expect Britain‟s NA TO partners to follow suit by offering more forces themselves. NA TO defense ministers are likely to discuss troop levels on a meeting formally in Bratislava next week.BBC News Item 5 经济：欧美股市大跌Stock markets in Europe and the United States have fallen sharply in response to further signs that the debt crisis in Greece is intensifying and could spread to other countries. Share prices in New Y ork, London, Frankfurt and Paris fell by more than 2% after a major international credit rating agency Standard & Poor‟s downgraded Greek debt to a level known informally as junk. Nils Blythe has more.Standard & Poor‟s downgraded its assessment of Greek bonds to the so-called junk status because of the growing danger that the bond holders will not be paid back in full. Many big investment funds have rules that forbid them from holding junk bonds, says the move is likely to trigger a further round of selling. Share markets have taken fright, fearing that if Greece does default on its debts, it would hit many European banks which hold Greek bonds and could trigger a wider financial crisis. Already pressure is mounting on Portugal which has also seen its credit rating downgraded today, although it remains above junk status.BBC News Item 6 经济：IMF 要求各国进一步稳定全球金融体系The International Monetary Fund has told governments across the world that further action is needed to help return the global financial system to stability. In a fresh estimate of the scale of the problem, the IMF says global losses on toxic assets could total four trillion dollars. Andrew Walker reports.This report does identify what it calls some early signs of stabilization in financial systems, but there are not many of them. And the IMF says further action will be needed if they‟re to be sustained. In two key areas, it says that progress by governments has been piecemeal and reactive, dealing with the problem assets held by financial institutions and how to handle banks that need extra capital. For that problem the report says temporary government ownership may sometime be necessary.BBC News Item 7 经济：德国给予希腊财政援助Officials in Germany say the total financial aid package for Greece could be more than double, the 60 billion dollars that is previously expected. The head of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn is in Berlin trying to persuade Germany to agree to the financial rescue plan. He said the deal needed to be implemented quickly as the situation was getting worse every day and could affect other European countries. But the German Chancellor Angola Merkel saidBerlin needed to be searching that Greece was serious about spending cuts.2www.T BBC News Item 8 经济：IMF 正努力帮助希腊解决债务问题The head of the International Monetary Fund says Greece has nothing to fear from the organization. At a news conference in Washington, Dominique Strauss-Kahn said the IMF was trying to provide Greece with the advice and resources necessary to help with its debt problem. Andrew Walker reports from Washington.Mr. Strauss-Kahn was responding to a Greek journalist who said the Greek public are demonizing the IMF that they fear things will be worse with IMF involvement. The agency has a reputation for requiring borrowing countries to make deep cuts in popular government spending programs. Mr. Strauss-Kahn said the Greek people should think of the IMF as a cooperative organization where the countries of the world work together to help those in trouble by providing resources and advice on behalf of the international community.BBC News Item 9 经济：G20 财政部长达成协议Finance ministers of the world‟s leading industrialized and developing countries, the G20, have agreed to continue supporting the global economic recovery. In a statement released after their meeting in Scotland, the ministers said conditions had improved, but economic and financial recovery was uneven and unemployment a worry. Andrew Walker reports.The communiqué avoids complacency. Although economic and financial conditions have improved, they decided they still need to keep up the initiatives intended to restore growth. The meeting was, however, rather overshadowed by a statement from the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, suggesting a tax on financial transactions as one of a number of options for making banks pay for the crisis. His calls have been received politely by the finance ministers but several made remarks which suggest that other ways of tackling the problem are rather more likely to be adopted.BBC News Item 10 经济：欧盟达成协议，终止了香蕉贸易争端The European Union has initialed an agreement to end one of the world‟s longest-running trade disputes over bananas. The EU, the world‟s biggest importer of bananas, is to cut the duty it imposes on Latin American producers of the fruit, while bananas grows in former European colonies will gradually lose the preferential terms they‟ve enjoyed. Andrew Walker reports.The deal signed in Geneva commits the European Union to gradually lowering the tariffs it imposes on bananas imported mainly from Latin America. The cut will be over a third by 2017. That will reduce the competitive advantage of a group of countries, mainly former colonies of EU states in Africa and Caribbean, which enjoyed tariff-free access. The EU plans to provide those countries with some compensation, in a shape of nearly 300,000 dollars in additional aid.BBC News Item 11 科技：太阳能飞机The long-awaited take-off of the Solar Impulse was greeted with delight by those who have spent the last seven years working on it.The solar-powered plane has the wing-span of a jumbo jet, but weighs less than a family car.It doesn‟t use a single drop of aviation fuel, instead its giant wings are covered with solar cells.The project is the brainchild of Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard —he sees the Solar3www.T Impulse as a sign of things to come.BBC News Item 12 教育：英国学校开设学普通话课程It‟s the world‟s fastest growing economy and shows no sign of slowing down, so striking deals with Chinese businesses is now the top priority for every British company that wants to stay ahead in global trade. Now schools in the United Kingdom want to give their students a head start by teaching them Mandarin —and they are making it compulsory.Brighton College is a fee paying private school on the south coast of Britain and already teaches Latin, Spanish and French to its 1,200 pupils. Students can choose between these languages, but from the autumn, which is the beginning of the new academic year in British schools, every student must study Mandarin whether they like it or not.BBC News Item 13 娱乐：奥斯卡大赢家英国The cast and crew of British movies will no longer be hailed as the underdogs at awards ceremonies. At the recent 81st Oscars ceremony, British actors and movies won no less than 11 awards.The list of Oscar winners is usually dominated by American films and actors but 2009 has seen a more international flavour to the ceremony. British actors and actresses have long awaited such global recognition. Kate Winslet was nominated six times for an Oscar before she eventually won the Best Actress award at this year‟s ceremony.Slumdog Millionaire lived up to its status as a global success and movie phenomenon. The low-budget movie swept the board winning eight Oscars, including Best Director and Best Picture. The movie, which documents the life of a young Indian boy after he wins a TV game show, has definitely helped to raise the profile of the British film industry.Summarising the national feeling, British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, issued a statement sayi ng “Britain is showing it has the talent to lead the worl d”.BBC News Item 14 人物：英女王也是网民It might seem like an unlikely match —an ancient institution getting to grips with cutting edge technology —but the British royal family has been active online for more than a decade.They launched their own website in 1997. The Queen‟s Christmas message is available as a podcast, and a year ago the official Royal Channel was launched on Y ouTube, showing videos of the family at work.Royal watchers describe the 82 year old Queen as a silver surfer —someone who‟s enthusiastic about the internet and who keeps in touch with younger members of her family by email.BBC News Item 15 体育：伦敦马拉松This weekend, around 35,000 runners filled the streets of London, running the 26th annual London Marathon. The course is 26.2 miles long (42 km), and goes past many of London‟s landmarks, such as the Tower of London, the famous 19th century ship Cutty Sark, the Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace. The runners actually run over Tower Bridge.4www.T BBC News Item 16 体育：牛津剑桥划船赛Oxford and Cambridge are the oldest and most famous universities in Britain, and there has always been a great rivalry between the two institutions. But the most public competition between the two is the annual Boat Race. The 2006 Boat Race will take place on 2nd April, and will be the 152nd race of its kind.Both universities are located near rivers, and rowing is a popular and prestigious sport. The very first race took place in 1829, when a Cambridge student challenged a school-friend studying at Oxford. Ever since, the defeated team from the previous year challenges the opposition to a rematch. The only times when no Boat Races took place were during the First and Second World Wars.BBC News Item 17 政治：美国民主党得到参议院60 个席位President Obama‟s Democratic Party has secured the critical 60 seat majority in the US Senate that can help it override any Republican obstructions on Capitol Hill. This happened when the Democrats won the last undecided senate seat from November‟s election after the Supreme Court in the state of Minnesota declared the Democratic candidate Al Franken the winner. Richard Lister reports from Washington.For almost eight months the two candidates had been locked in a bitter fight in the Minnesota Courts over the result of November‟s Senate election. Just a few hundred votes separated them after the 2.8 million cast. The initial count favoured the Republican Norm Coleman but the recount gave the majority to his Democratic Party rival Al Franken. And the State Supreme Court is now upheld that verdict. His victory gives the Democrats 60 votes in the senate and the potential to overturn Republican efforts to block legislation.BBC News Item 18 政治：美国和以色列关系面临考验Reports in Israeli media say Israel‟s ambassador to the United States Michael Oren told Israeli diplomats that American-Israeli relations were facing a crisis of historic proportions. Washington is furious at last week‟s announcement by Israel during a visit by the US V ice President that more new Jewish homes were to be built in occupied East Jerusalem. But on Monday, the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Israeli parliament the building project would continue. Paul Wood reports from Jerusalem.Mr. Netanyahu has been presented with a choice, a breach with the right-wing members of his coalition, or with the Americans. With his speech to the Knesset, he seems to have chosen to put the needs of domestic politics first. It seems the Americans are so angry because they believe Mr. Netanyahu went back on an understanding. This was apparently that Israel would not push forward of any big new settlement building projects in East Jerusalem. This was necessary of the Palestinians were to be persuaded to join the long delayed negotiations so painstakingly put together by US mediators.BBC News Item 19 军事：美国将继续驻军阿富汗Leading United States officials have said the American military will continue its presence in Afghanistan for a number of years despite beginning to withdraw in 2011. In a series of media5www.T reappearances, officials stressed that the date should be seen as the beginning of handing over responsibility to Afghan forces. Imtiaz Tyab report from Washington.Speaking on a Sunday morning political chat show, the Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that despite President Obama‟s plan to begin withdrawing the troops from the region in July, 2011, the US was likely to maintain a significant military presence in Afghanistan for a number of years. The Defense Secretary said the pullout date was said to underline the urgent need for the Afghans to speed up recruiting and training soldiers and getting them into the field. A comment‟s followed criticism from opposition Republicans who say announcing a withdraw date sent a dangerous signal to insurgents.BBC News Item 20 政治：奥巴马推迟访问印尼和澳大利亚President Obama is postponing a trip to Indonesia and Australia, so he can stay in Washington to try to get his health care reforms pass by congress. Mr. Obama had already delayed the long arranged trip once and was due to set off on Sunday. But with the crucial vote on the reform is expected within days, the trip has been put off entirely until June. From Washington Mark Martell reports.The president‟s make changes to American health care insurance system, his flagship domestic legislation is dragged on for over a year and divided the country. He will be damaged if he can‟t get it through. The climax is near, so far there is no sign of any republicans voting for it, its fate lies in the hands of handful in the president‟s own party, who either feel it allows for easier abortion or who simply fear a back lash in November‟s elections, if they vote for a measures their constitution dislike.BBC News Item 21 政治：英国新首相After days of political horse-trading the UK finally has a new government and a new Prime Minister, following the resignation of Labour‟s Gordon Brown on Tuesday evening.Since last Thursday‟s general election resulted in a hung parliament, a situation in which none of the political parties has an overall majority, British politicians have been attempting to form a coalition government.Such a government is comparatively rare in the UK. Indeed this is the first coalition since the Second World War.BBC News Item 22 军事：奥巴马对核安全峰会的评价President Barack Obama says the summit conference on nuclear security which has just ended in Washington was a testament to what is possible when nations come together. He said the 49 countries who attended had come to a four-point plan for future success in securing the security of all nuclear materials produced or stockpiled around the globe. Mr. Obama said the summit had made a real contribution to a safer world.BBC News Item 23 政治：希拉里出访莫斯科The American Secretary of States Hillary Clinton is in Moscow to try to persuade Russia to support American policy on Iran. The US wants Russia to agree to the option of imposing6www.T additional sanctions on Iran if it does not suspend its uranium enrichment program by the end of the year. Richard Galpin reports from Moscow.As a permanent member of United Nations Security Council, Russia has the power to veto resolutions. And Moscow has always said it does not believe sanctions are an effective way of promoting change. But recently, President Medvedev has indicated his government made ultimately accept that sanctions are inevitable. There are other big issues to be discussed while Mrs. Clinton is in Russia, including the plan for Moscow and Washington to sign a new treaty in early December for a further cut in their large arsenals of nuclear weapons.BBC News Item 24 军事：美国和联合国敦促巴以恢复和平谈判The United States and the United Nations are urging Israel and Palestinians to resume peace talks after a day of unrest in Jerusalem. The American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Washington wanted to insure both sides were fully committed to peace efforts. The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned as illegal recent Israeli plans to build new settlements in East Jerusalem. Barbara Plett reports from New Y ork.Ban Ki-moon urged restraint in Jerusalem, reminding Israelis and Palestinians of the final statues of the city were supposed to be decided in negotiations. He repeated condemnation of Israeli plans to build 1,600 new homes for Jewish settlers in the occupied eastern part of the city, stating again that such settlements are illegal under international law. On Friday, the Secretary General is set to attend a ministerial meeting of the quartet which groups the UN, the European Union, Russia and America. He said members will discuss additional measures to trying rescue tentative steps to resume Israeli-Palestinian peace talks although he didn‟t say what they were.BBC News Item 25 经济：美国8 月份汽车销售成绩大好Car manufacturers in the United States reported their best results so far this year in August, in large part due to a government scheme aimed at encouraging people to trade in their old cars for more fuel-efficient new ones. The top results among American carmakers were posted by Ford which saw its sales rise by 17% from August of last year. The results held increase U S manufacturing output as a whole for the first time since January of last year. President Obama said the latest figures indicate that the American economy is on the path to recovery.BBC News Item 26 经济：高盛投资被控涉嫌诈骗Financial regulators in the United States have accused the investment bank Goldman Sachs of fraud related to the collapse of the American housing market in 2007. The Securities and Exchange Commission is taking civil action against the bank. Michelle Fleury sent this report from the floor of the New Y ork Stock Exchange.The Securities and Exchange Commission alleges the bank sold investors a financial product based on subprime mortgages that was designed to lose value. Goldman Sachs has denied the allegations and says it will defend the firm and its reputation. This is the first time that the US government has explicitly accused one of Wall Street‟s premier institutions of fraud relating to the collapse of the US housing market.7www.T BBC News Item 27 经济：美国财政官员失职An investigation of United States has found that the country‟s top financial regulator, the Securities and the Exchange Commissioner SEC, fail to uncover the 65 billion dollar fraud carried out by the convicted financier Bernard Madoff over a 16-year period, despite 5 separate investigations in his business dealings. Greg Wood reports.The report by the SEC‟s expected general David Kotz reads like a catalog of bungled opportunities to catch Bernard Madoff, long before he owned up to the largest fraud in US history. He was investigated five times. SEC staff caught him in lies but failed to follow them up. They rejected offers from whistleblowers to provide additional evidence. Many of the investigators were inexperienced. The scale of the SEC‟s incompetence is laid bare by this report.BBC News Item 28 经济：美国银行同意支付罚款了结控诉The Bank of America has agreed to pay 33 million dollars to settle accusations by the US government over billions of dollars of bonuses paid out last year by its investment on Merrill Lynch. Bank of America took over Merrill Lynch to save it from collapse in a deal backed by American taxpayers‟ money. John Bithry reports.Bank of America had promised its shareholders that no bonuses would be paid to bankers at Merrill Lynch without its express permission. It‟s agreed to buy the struggling investment bank in September. On the same weekend that talks to save Lehman Brothers from collapse failed. Like Lehman, Merrill Lynch was brought to its knees by debt links to the US housing market that became toxic and lost its value. But after Merrill was rescued by BOA, it went ahead and paid its staff 3.6 billion dollars in bonuses anyway. Shortly afterwards Bank of America was forced to go to the government for billions of dollars in extra taxpayer support, and the revelation of the payments caused a public outcry.BBC News Item 29 经济：加州财政预算出了问题After weeks of negotiations, the governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger has reached an outline agreement with legislative leaders on a plan to tackle the state‟s massive budget shortfall. The deal, which will have to be approved by the state legislature, includes plans for billions of dollars in budget cuts, but no tax rises. Peter Bolger reports.California has a budget shortfall of 26 billion dollars. State workers have been put on short time and many social and education services have been cut. The state has even resorted to issuing IOUs to companies it does business with and to individuals who are owed tax refunds. Governor Schwarzenegger described the comprised deal as a basic agreement to close the state‟s huge deficit. He and fellow Republicans have refused to raise taxes, all the opposition Democrats said fought to preserve social services.BBC News Item 30 军事：美国德州军事基地枪击案The United States army has formally charged the military officer accused of carrying out last week‟s mass shooting at the Fort Hood military base in Texas. The officer, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an army psychiatrist, has been under armed guard in a hospital since being wounded in theshooting. Mathew Prize reports from New Y ork.8www.T There are still many questions surrounding the mass shooting at the America‟s largest military base, but one of them has now been answered. Major Nidal Hasan, an army psychiatrist who was due to be deployed to Afghanistan, has been charged with 13 counts of murder. That could rise if prosecutors decide also to charge him with the murder of an unborn child being carried by one of his victims. He will be prosecuted in a military court. If convicted, he could face the death penalty, although no one has actually been executed under the US military justice system for almost 50 years.BBC News Item 31 军事：奥巴马就军事基地枪击案发言President Barack Obama has told memorial service at the Fort hood army base in Texas that United States must never forget the 13 men and women who died in the shooting there last week. He said the killings couldn‟t be justified.“It may be hard to comprehend the twisted logic that led to this tragedy. But this much we do know no faith justifies these murderous and craven acts. No just and loving god looks upon them with favor. For what is done we know the killer will be met with justice in this world and the next.”The president paid tribute to those who‟d been not able, as he put it, “to escape the horror of war, even in the comfort of hom e.”BBC News Item 32 科技：美国奋进号航天飞机升空The American Space Shuttle Endeavor has blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on its sixth attempt after more than a month of delays caused by fuel leaks and thunderstorms. Bill Gerstenmaier of NASA said finally the weather had been favorable and the shuttle crew were looking ahead to completing the installation of the Japanese Kibo laboratory on the space station.We had a great launch today. We were ready. The weather finally cooperated and we had just an awesome launch today. Again, I would caution you that the mission is very challenging in front of us. The five EV As, the robotic activities will take the absolute best the teams have both in Houston and in orbit. And the teams are fully prepared they are ready to go do what they need to go do and we look forward to the exciting activities as we install the Exposed Facility out on the Kibo module.BBC News Item 33 科技：登月飞行A panel of experts appointed by the White House has warned that current plans to send astronauts back to the moon in preparation for manned missions to Mars are just not viable. One of the panel members Li Ruoqiao says the space agency NASA hasn‟t been given enough funds to realize the plans.“That is when the visions for space aspirations were first announced in 2004 there was expectation of a certain budget level of the next several years. In fact over the last five years those numbers are nothing realized. So because of that we are in a pickle that we are in now.”The experts say the current budget of the space agency NASA would need to be increased by billions of dollars. Without the extra money, the experts say, NASA would have to work with private companies now trying to embark on commercial space flights.9www.T BBC News Item 34 灾难：美国加州森林大火Wildfires are a feature of the California Summer but it‟s unusual for them to break out so close to major centers of population. It‟s hot here and getting hotter which is driving the brush making it all the more in cindery, and forecast is such that there has been a speculation it could take firefighters a week to bring this blaze under control. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is pleading with people in the path of the flames to evacuate as soon as they‟r e told to do so.BBC News Item 35 政治：抗议苏丹总统选举Most of the main opposition parties in Sudan are withdrawing from all the elections this month —the first multi-party elections since 1986. They won‟t take part because of concerns about fraud and security. On Wednesday, the presidential candidate for the former southern rebels Y assir Arman pulled out. President Obama‟s Special Envoy General Scott Gration has been in Khartoum trying to save the elections. James Copnall sent this report from Khartoum.Several major opposition parties have announced they will boycott the Sudanese elections at every level. Earlier today, they told the BBC they would boycott the presidential elections in protest of what they believe will not be free and fair polls. Now several of the parties have decided not to compete in the parliamentary or state elections either. The decision strikes a real blow at the credibility of elections which were meant to hold the democratic transformation in Sudan.BBC News Item 36 军事：苏丹达尔富尔问题In what‟s been seen as a significant step towards peace in Darfur, the Sudanese government has signed a temporary ceasefire agreement with JAM, one of the main rebel factions. The other main rebel group has so far refused talks with the government. James Copnall reports from Khartoum.The deal is believed to include a temporary ceasefire and a framework agreement for future talks. The Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir said the death sentence against the JAM fighters convicted of attacking Omdurman had been quashed, and 30% of them had been released as a goodwill measure. His act details of the agreement are not yet clear, but the fact has just been signed is a significant step forward in the peace process in Darfur. United Nations estimates that 300,000 people have died in Darfur, but the Sudanese government puts the figure at 10,000.BBC News Item 37 军事：沙特的武装计划袭击石油装置The authorities in Saudi Arabia say they‟ve arrested more than 100 militants suspected of links to Al-Qaeda who were planning to attack oil installation in the kingdom. The Saudi Interior Ministry says half of those attained are Saudis and the others are from Y emen, Bangladsh, Somalia and Retrea. Official say security forces seized weapons, cameras, computers and documents. Shahzeb Jillani has more.The latest round of arrests suggest militants are crossing from neighbouring Y emen and using Saudi connections to block attacks. The Saudi Interior Ministry spokesman Mansur al-Turki said that the two cells dismantled by the security forces were cooperating Al-Qaeda and Y emen. In addition he said a network of militance specializing and targeting security personnel has been。
BBC 常用英语词汇
1.sovereignn.君主, 国王, 女王King George was the sovereign of England.乔治王是英国的君主。
旧时价值为一镑的英国金币adj.控制国家的; 统治的The Queen has sovereign power.女王握有统治权。
独立自主的For a brief time Texas was a sovereign nation.得克萨斯一度是个主权独立的国家。
2.legitimateadj.合情合理的; 合法的Sickness is a legitimate reason for asking for leave.生病是请假的一个正当的理由。
3.thwartvt. 阻挠The guards thwarted his attempt to escape from prison.警卫阻扰了他越狱的企图。
使受挫折;挫败Our plans for a picnic were thwarted by the rain.我们的野餐计划因雨受挫。
4.overshadowvt. 使(某物)被遮暗;使阴暗Heavy clouds overshadowed the mountain.厚厚的云层遮掩了大山。
使(某事物)令人不快或减少乐趣His disappearance overshadowed the family.他的失踪给家庭蒙上了一层阴影。
使(某人)相形见绌或黯然失色Mary was sometimes overshadowed by the more talkative members of the family. 有时家中更健谈的人使玛丽显得黯然失色。
5.abstainvi.戒(尤指酒), 戒除His doctor ordered him to abstain from beer and wine.他的医生嘱咐他戒酒。
弃权(不投票)In the referendum many people abstained.在这次公民投票中许多人弃权。
BBC新闻词汇
accredited journalist n.特派记者advertisement n.广告advance n.预发消息；预写消息affair n.桃色新闻；绯闻anecdote n.趣闻轶事assignment n.采写任务attribution n.消息出处；消息来源back alley news n.小道消息backgrounding n.新闻背景Bad news travels quickly. 坏事传千里banner n.通栏标题beat n.采写范围blank vt.“开天窗”body n.新闻正文boil vt.压缩(篇幅)box n.花边新闻brief n.简讯bulletin n.新闻简报byline n.署名文章caption n.图片说明caricature n.漫画carry vt.刊登cartoon n.漫画censor vt.审查(新闻稿件)，新闻审查chart n.(每周流行音乐等)排行榜clipping n.剪报column n.专栏，栏目columnist n.专栏作家continued story 连载故事，连载小说contributing editor 特约编辑contribution n.(投给报刊的)稿件，投稿contributor n.投稿人copy desk n.新闻编辑部copy editor n.文字编辑correction n.更正(启事) correspondence column 读者来信专栏correspondent n.驻外记者，常驻外埠记者cover vt.采访，采写cover girl n.封面女郎covert coverage 隐性采访，秘密采访crop vt.剪辑(图片)crusade n.宣传攻势cut n.插图vt.删减(字数)cut line n.插图说明daily n.日报dateline n.新闻电头deadline n.截稿时间dig vt.深入采访，追踪(新闻线索)，“挖”(新闻)digest n.文摘editorial n.社论editorial office 编辑部editor's notes 编者按exclusive n.独家新闻expose n.揭丑新闻，新闻曝光extra n.号外eye-account n.目击记，记者见闻faxed photo 传真照片feature n.特写，专稿feedback n.信息反馈file n.发送消息，发稿filler n.补白First Amendment (美国宪法)第一修正案(内容有关新闻、出版自由等) five "W's" of news 新闻五要素(注：请知道5W含义者联系编辑flag n.报头，报名folo (=follow-up) n.连续报道Fourth Estate 第四等级(新闻界的别称)freedom of the Press 新闻自由free-lancer n.自由撰稿人full position 醒目位置Good news comes on crutches.好事不出门。
BBC新闻带翻译
BBC News with Jonathan Izard.The United States says the Congolese war crime suspect Bosco Ntaganda has handed himself in at the US embassy in Rwanda and asked to be transferred to the International Criminal Court, the ICC, in The Hague. Our East Africa correspondent Gabriel Gatehouse reports.Bosco Ntaganda walked into the US embassy in Kigali on Monday morning unsolicited according to an official statement from Washington. Neither the United States nor Rwanda is a signatory to the ICC, but a spokeswoman for the state department said the US supported the work of the court and would aim to facilitate his transferal to The Hague. The charges against Gen Ntaganda, who’s nicknamed The Terminator, include rape, murder and the recruitment of child soldiers. They relate not to the current rebellion in the eastern Congo, but to an earlier conflict in the same region.A legal case has begun in New York that challenges the way the city’s po lice conduct a policy of detaining and sometimes searching those they consider suspicious. Critics say the operations known as “stop and frisk” disproportionately target black and Hispanic men. But the policy’s supporters say it’s contributed to a sharp drop in violent crime. Here’s our North America correspondent Jonny Dymond.More than half a million people were stopped on the streets of New York City last year by police. The policy is legal. But now opponents want the way that it’s put into action exam ined and reformed. More than half of those stopped are black, only a quarter of the city’s residents are. A lawyer for the organisation that started the case, the Center for Constitutional Rights, described the stops as a frightening and degrading experience that were arbitrary, unnecessary and unconstitutional.The jailed Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan says he’s to make a historic statement on Thursday, raising hopes that he might call a ceasefire after decades of conflict with the Turkish government. James Reynolds sent this report from Istanbul.A delegation of Kurdish MPs was allowed to go and see Abdullah Ocalan in prison. The politicians took back with them to Istanbul a statement from the PKK’s leader. Abdullah Ocalan said that he would make a call, or announcement, during traditional Kurdish New Year celebrations on Thursday. This call will feature satisfactory information on the political and military aspects of the solution, he wrote. Most here take this to mean that Mr Ocalan will call a ceasefire and may also announce the withdrawal of armed PKK fighters from Turkey to their main base across the border in northern Iraq.Finance ministers from the eurozone have asked Cyprus to protect small investors from a proposed levy on savings. Plans for a one-off tax of nearly seven per cent on savings up to 100,000 euros have outraged Cypriots. Banks in Cyprus are to remain closed until Thursday as efforts to revise an international bailout package continue. A parliamentary vote on the package has been repeatedly postponed. It’s now expected on Tuesday.World News from the BBC.The British Prime Minister David Cameron has presented the plan to regulate the press in the wake of a series of scandals over phone hacking by journalists. Mr Cameron told parliament that the plan agreed overnight by Britain’s main political parties would set up a watchdog that could impose heavy fines on newspapers and force them to publish corrections. The leader of the opposition Labour party Ed Miliband said the agreement satisfied the demands of protection for victims and freedom of the press."I don’t want to live in a country where sections of the press can abuse their power to wreak havoc on the lives of innocent people. And equally I want to live in a country that upholds the right of a fearless, angry, controversial press that holds the powerful to account, including in this House. Today’s agreement protects the victims and upholds a free press.”The Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has made a direct appeal to Pope Francis to intervene on the dispute between her country and Britain over the Falkland Islands. At an audience with the Pope at the Vatican, the Argentine leader said she wanted him to get involved. She accused Britain of militarising the islands. It’s not known how the Pope, who is from Argentina, responded to the appeal. Argentina claims sovereignty over the islands.The Supreme Court in Colombia has revoked a presidential decree which allowed abortions in cases of rape, malformation or risk to the mother’s health. The judge said the decree issued in 2006 was illegal because it meddled in areas for which no law had ever been passed. But a separate constitutional court ruling holds that clinics cannot refuse abortions in such cases.The Bangladesh Cricket Board has banned an international umpire Nadir Shah from the sport for 10 years after finding him guilty of corruption. The board launched an inquiry after a report by an Indian television station alleged that Mr Shah and others were willing to help fix matches in return for bribes. Nadir Shah denies the charges and says he will appeal.BBC News.Jonathan Izard为您报道BBC新闻。
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All the wrong messagesExpediency(方便；权宜之计) and parsimony（过分节俭=extremely stingy）will undermine(gradually destroy) the modest aims of the Afghan strategyMar 17th 2012 | from the print editionTHE news fromAfghanistangets grimmer(serious;horrible;harsh;rough). The massacre（屠杀）of 16 civilians, nine of them children, by an apparently deranged American marine sergeant came swiftly after the killing of six British soldiers by a roadside bomb. That followed a wave of violent protests, leading to 29 deaths including the murder of two American military advisers, which resulted from the burning of copies of the Koran（可兰经或者说古兰经穆斯林的）on an American base. Shortly before that, video footage（连续镜头）showed American troops urinating（撒尿；拉屎是defalcate）on the corpses of recently slain（slay的变体，被杀害的）Taliban.These dreadful（stirring up fear; displeasing）events reinforce（shore up 加强）the widespread feeling in NATO(北约) countries that Afghanistan is a hopeless cause, that the presence of Western troops is making things worse, and that the sooner they are brought home the better (see article). Barack Obama, America’s president, and David Cameron, Britain’s prime minister, who met this week, were keen（sharp inperception;sharp-pointed;eager）to point out to war-weary voters that an end of sorts is in sight. Both leaders are now talking about American and British troops pulling back from their lead combat role by the middle of 2013. Mr Obama, who will havereversed(countermand;withdrawl 这里就是撤回) the 33,000-strong troop surge he ordered in late 2009 by the end of this summer, would like to announce a further drawdown of forces in good time for the presidential election in November. This will be made to look just about consistent with NATO’s policy of foreign com bat forces leaving by the end of 2014 after a transition（过渡）in which the responsibility for security, region by region, gradually passes to well-trained Afghan forces.NATO has a clear strategy designed to leave the Afghan government able to cope after foreign combat troops have gone and to foster（adopt and encourage）political reconciliation(调和) with the Taliban, but the sense that a scramble for（争夺）the exit is already under way is giving encouragement to the enemy. The original timetable was tight, counting on the ability of increasingly competent, well-trained Afghan forces to fill the space left by NATO soldiers withdrawing from their combat roles. But senior commanders （高级指挥官）felt it to be realistic. Accelerating it, they believe, risks demanding too much of Afghan forces too soon.Not victory, but not defeat or betrayalFor Afghanistan to have a stable future, the government needs to be reasonably solid（这里指可靠）, the security forces reasonably competent and the Taliban convinced that their only access t o power lies through reconciliation. In this, the “strategic partnership agreement” that the American and Afghan governments have been negotiating for the best part of a year is vital. For the Afghans, it will determine what kind of military helpAmericaprovides after 2014. Their wish-list includes surveillance（监控monitor）and reconnaissance(侦查), close air support, air transport and medical evacuation（伤患后送）. In return, America will keep bases from which it can conduct counter-terrorism operations to prevent “core” al-Qaeda（基地组织）from re-emerging as a threat to the West.Thanks to compromises（双方为了达到共同利益所做出的让步，妥协）on both sides, an agreement seemed close—until the marine’s rampage（狂暴angry and destructive behaviors）last weekend. Now a fresh complication(复杂情况) may be the issue of whether American forces get immunity（免疫；豁免exemption）from prosecution(sue litigate 起诉控告) in Afghanistan. America will insist on immunity—it pulled its forces out of Iraq rather than accept that they could be prosecuted there, as Afghan ministers well know—but on other issues it should show more patience and generosity.The second area of strain is over the cost of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) in the years to come. The target strength of the ANSF, which includes the army and the police, is 352,000—smaller than the recommendation of the previous American commander inAfghanistan, General David Petraeus. But America and its allies, who will be footing the bill（付账）, have quietly decided that even that number, which will cost $6 bi llion, is too big. After an initial “surge”, the ANSF will have to slim down（这里指减少到slim是瘦身）to about 230,000, with a price tag（价格标签）of around $4 billion a year.This parsimony is a mistake. The aftermath（余波，后果）of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan is a warning against abrupt departures, leaving ill-resourced governments behind. The country collapsed into a civil war that killed many thousands of civilians and spawned（respawn是多塔里面的英雄重生，少个re大家懂得）the Taliban. NATO’s strategy is designed to prevent a repeat of that disaster by providing the Afghan government with adequate security forces and encouraging political reconciliation between it and its enemies.Avoiding chaos（extreme disorder）would not be victory; but nor would it be defeat and betrayal. Even that modest goal is now threatened by the creeping(行动缓慢的毛骨悚然的美国口语中creepy很常用，比如说某人恶心到恐怖) reluctance of Mr Obama and his allies to stick to their guns. Afghans deserve better.。
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BBC英语新闻词汇１．Concession让步, Administration政府,Resume恢复, Priority优先考虑的事, Secretary of state国务卿,Turkey土耳其, Turkish土耳其, Ankara安卡拉, Cyprus塞浦路斯, Greece希腊, Greek希腊人, Athens 雅典, Clinton克林顿２．Outline草案, contentious引起争论的, settlement住宅区, Israel以色列, Israeli, Palestine巴勒斯坦, Palestinian , Jerusalem耶路撒冷, The Middle East, The Gaza Strip加沙地带３．Mastermind策划, ,Retort 反驳, Extradition引渡, Militant好战分子, Afghanistan阿富汗, Afghan , Saudi沙特阿拉伯的, Osama bin Laden本拉丹, Taliban塔利班４．Reintroduction重又采用, Reformist改良主义的, Tread践、踏, Positive建设性的, Iran伊郎, Iranian, The European Union欧盟, Chirac希拉克,５．Handover移交, Timing时间的选择, ‘Portugal 葡萄牙, Portuguese, Macao澳门６．Governor州长, Illinois , Fidel Castro 卡斯特罗７．membership 成员资格, ousted被驱逐的, coup政变, depose免职, in detention拘留, Pakistan, Pakistani, Nawaz Sharif谢里夫, Pervaiz Musharraf穆沙拉夫８．deadlock 僵局, retain保持, disarm解除武装, endorse赞同, Northern Ireland, Unionist Party统一党, IRA爱尔兰共和军９．Balkan巴尔干半岛, Bulgaria保加利亚１０．Underpin支持巩固, Catholic天主教的, Protestant新教的, Dublin都柏林, Ulster 爱尔兰别称, Sinn 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